The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1902, Page 13

n some more. family y tticy mer—for table if s a she of tent at herd of Bvery- 1y i and kes a break for the grub evening It issdifferent nding in large ings, waving at t loaded to the last yzen long tables in the with hungry men, who on the narrow planks jeed. There is noth- nme like it. Nowhere the world are knces of so many of six THE SUNDAY CALL. . different nationalities gathered under one table—or one wozen tables, under one tent. And at the head of one of the tables sits Buffalo Bill himself, the hardest worked in the world (to hear him tell it), nd certainly the best paid for his work. Nobody takes off his hat. He hasn’'t time. He has come to eat and niz only concern is to get his order to the cook’s ears as quickly as possible. Who'll have some of the black stuff?” shouts the waiters as they pass up and down the line with big pots of coffee. m Every bowl is raised high in the air— bowls, not “Coffee or tal lemonade?” says the ake coffee and some tea. the soup. None of shadowy stuff that is served on there are flowers and candles but soup that is thick and After the soup there is Some your where It doesn't last long, this dinner, and hen it's over every man’s plate looks had cleaned it. family of Buffalo Bill it takes half a dozen cooks, half a hundred table boys, haif a ton of meat and every- thing else proportion. A caterer has the job by the year and charge of all the cooks and flunk- dishwashers, woodcutters, butcher the cook tent and all rt, he o is. « nd glove with the eaterer is the sing agent, with a task Herculean. yclock of the morning the show kes town, breadman, milkman, meat- and grocer must be on the ground s, or it isn’t pleasant to hat might happen to the purchas- gent if 600 men woke up hungry and thing for breakfast. ays the man who does the mar- for this family, is the one thing must have. Twelve to sixteen hun- pounds of it a day, according to the r; fof there are days When the wind is chill and the work hard, and a s plate goes back many times for 2t. More than one man is good for his teen eggs for breakfast, and there's not a man among them but would scorn lJess than five for a starter. As for the Indians, they eat little else tut meat, and while ihere is no danger drec of thelr foundering on the porterhouse they get they are satisfied so long as théy laive six or seven helps, each as big as two good fists. It keeps one man busy all day cutting meat, for the beef comes by, the quarter and mutton and pork in whatever hap- pens to be the fashion in butchering cheep and hogs. Then there are whoie hams and bacon and liver and sausagss by the mile, and when there is fish on the bill for dinner it takes 400 pounds. The refrigerator wagon, where the meat always the first wagon on chest rides, the grounds, and then and butcher gets to work. The baker who gets the'contract to sup« ply Buffalo Bill with bread has a big job on his hands while it lasts. It takes 400 pounds a day,which means a good wagon- load. Meat and bread are not the only things consumed In magnificent quantities. It takes twelve bushels of potatoes a day. Thereis never a meal without po- tatces. Sometimes baked, sometimes fried, sometimes mashed, but always po- tatoes. To mash a tubful of potatoes and ve them creamy may seem something there the [5 ) > 2 i) 5 of a problem to the woman who cooks put into a mill, with milk enougn to make for a family of five or two, but it's easy them soft, a man turns the crank, and when you know how. The potatoes are presto, out they come all white and fluf- Yy and fit for a king. But before they get to the masher think what hours it takes to pare them. I'welve bushels a day—would you like the job? There is a regular fpeeling squad that does nothing but peel vegetables. When it isn't potatoes it's cucumbers: and when it isn’t cucumbers it's onions; and then there are beans to string and c :0 husk and peas to hull, for Buft Bill's family doesn’t get its brawn out of tin eans—not they. Of course, there are prunes and prunes ind prunes, large tubs of them, but there are puddings and ples, too, and fruits and melons. To cook all these things there is a range that just fits inside one of the big red wagons—a range big emough for half a Photegraphic Pointers For Amateurs. GOOD many failures occur in mak ing prints on the numerous pape prepared for gaslight or lam light printing, because the worker does not properly understand the principles under which they should be employed. It is very easy to operate these gaslight papers if one will remem- ber that they are mac the same principle as the dry plates and are, in fact, the same in all particulars, exce that they are less sensitive to the actic of light and consequently are slower. They require to be developed in just ths same way, after which, like the plates, they must be fixed, washed, hardened and dried. Half an hour spent in carefully reading and understanding the directions published with these papers will save many failures. In the handling of papers of this kind they may safely be opened in a light which would destroy a plate, and deveiop- ment goes on in the same light without injury to the paper. The time of ex- posure required, with negatives of or- dinary density, will be ffom one to two minutes at a distance of from three to six inches away from an ordinary gas- light or kerosene lamp, and after cx- posure development should go on In a strong developer, preferably of metol amidol or metol-hydroquinone, as these are less liable to stain than many of the other agents. The same formula that is used for plates works well with paper, and the image comes up very quickly under proper conditions of exposure and strength of developer. A very small amount of de- veloper only ‘Is required, but it should be of full strength and held back by a very small quantity, not more than three or four drops to the ounce, of a 10 per cent bromide of potassium solution. The print before being developed should be dipped into a tray of water in order that the de- veloper may flow evenly over its surface. It should then be held by the two upper corners and drawn quickly through the developer, face downward, two or three times in rapid succession. If the expos- ure has been correct, development will usually be effected with this number of immersions. As soon as the proper depth of color has been reached the print should be immediately Immersed in a tray of clean water and from that thrown into the following fixing bath: Hyposul- phite of soda, 8 ounces; water, 32 ounces; to which has been added sodium sulphite No. 8, 112 ounces; powdered alum, one- half ounce; water, 2% ounces. The print must be kept moving in this fixing bath for a few seconds, after which it should be left for fifteen or twenty minutes and thoroughly washed In running water. If the beginner will adhere strictly to dozen cooks to work over. Besides there is a special stove for broiling steaks and a campfire for bolling potatoes, making soup and coffee. When the coffee is made it goes into a tank big enough to drown in, while beside it stands one only slightly smallep for t At breakfast time the thirtys five-gallon coffee tank is filled and emp- tied three times. Once in a while by way of a treat therg is milk to drink, and for one meal it re- quires ninety gallons. The regular millg order is fifty gallons a day. It costs just 3360 a day to feed this family; and if all the food they eat In a season could be piled together therq would be a trainload of meat, another trainload of bread and pastry, a mouns tain of vegetables and a lake of drink- ables. these directions he will save himself much annoyance and the loss of many prints. The fall and winter work of the amae teur offers a new set of conditions, differs ing very considerably from those unde® which work has been carried on in the summer, and the worker of experience ale most invariak votes considerable ate ition just at this time of the year ta - preparation of darkroom shelves, bot= etc., most of which have been In & state of disuse during the preceding months. Stock solutions should be res newed, a supply of the most commoniy used chemicals laid in and everything prepared for comfortable and convenient use during the long winter evenings aboug to follow. See to it that the darkroom, if an impras vised one, is well ventiiated, that the ligh§ of the ruby lamp Is sufficient to illumis nate well without fogging the plates, and provide a shelf or other convenient place for developers and all bottles and gradu- ates most frequently used in darkroom operations. Prepare a place for all these things andisee that they are returned to thelr proper places each time after use. In this way one will goon learn to work in the dark without d'fficulty, which ig one of the first and most Important les- sons to learn in photographic manipula- tion: ' S not necessary, as some suppose, to re a fresh solution of hyphosulphite each time that a batch of plates Is to be developed. A better plan, and one which saves a great deal of labor, is to have on hand a large glass jar holding one or more gallons, into which a stock solutiap of hypo is put at the beginning of the season’s wotk and from which enough may be taken from time to time to fix the plates as developed. After fixing the solution should be returned to the bottle, first, however, being carefully filtered through a wad of cotton or a piece filtering paper. A fixing bath prepared In this way, after any of the published formulas, will keep for a long time if filtered after use, and its action is more perfect and even than if a new lot is prepared for each lot of plates. The most convenient meth~ od of fixing plates after development is by the use of a grooved fixing bath, ob= tainable at any of the supply stores at moderate cost. It is, of course, imporg. ant that enough of the hypo be put inge the bath to completely cover the platey when on their edges in the grooves. White ink, useful in a great many ways such as for titling negatives and lantern slides, for writing addresses on the darlg shades of cover paper now so populag and similar purposes, may be made by combining sulphate of barium with a thin solution of gum arabic_and mixing to consistency of cream. It may be anvll.: with a pen or a fine pointed brush,